On 4 March, the head of the Russian autonomous Republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, ironically commented on reports that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation published an announcement of a reward for information about businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin due to an investigation into "Russian interference," reported tellereport. 

“Friends, in the near future I can get rich by a quarter of a million dollars! It is impossible to imagine easier money from the American government,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. 

Kadyrov noted that he cannot “miss out on such a generous reward,” so he officially declared that Yevgeny Prigozhin is visiting him in Grozny. The head of Chechnya jokingly said that he was ready, without a twinge of conscience, to receive a well-deserved bonus, but only in cash. “You see, my millions of dollars in foreign accounts have been blocked due to EU and US sanctions. And you have to live on something! So, don't throw the money there - I won't be able to pick it up. You better pack the reward in a small suitcase in $20 bills and pass it through someone to Grozny, everyone here knows me, they will show you the way,” Kadyrov further wrote. 

According to Kadyrov, immediately after receiving the money, he will report the exact location of Prigozhin.

In late February, it became known that the FBI had offered a reward of up to $250,000 for information about Prigozhin. The intelligence agency reported that the Russian was wanted for alleged involvement in a conspiracy against the United States to obstruct the work of the US Federal Election Commission. In response, the businessman’s Concorde company gave the bureau his address and asked for a reward. Prigozhin accused American officials of a witch-hunt.